La voce del padrone

For the 1981 album by Franco Battiato, see La voce del padrone (album).

La voce del padrone was the Italian label and recording house for the British Gramophone Company. The Gramophone Company owned several labels in Italy, like Columbia, Marconiphone, Angel Records and Grammofono.

Image of a 78rpm of an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani, recorded by Grammofono/La voce del padrone

From 1904, Gramophone Company records were published and distributed in Italy by Saif (Società Anonima Italiana di Fonotopia), a company based in Milan. When the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company merged in 1931 to form EMI, Saif in turn merged with Columbia's Italian arm, SNG (Società Nazionale del Grammofono).^[1]

See also

• Gramophone Company
• EMI